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Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Posted Nov 3, 2006 16:12 UTC (Fri) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
In reply to: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft by tajyrink
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

> The patent agreement signed by Novell and Microsoft was designed with the principles and obligations of the GPL in mind."

That could just as easily mean that the agreement was carefully designed to circumvent those obligations as it could mean to adhere to them. PR froth.


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Weasel

Posted Nov 4, 2006 16:39 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

It could also mean that they didn't think of it at the moment, but will try to weasel their way out of in between the rock and the hard place. As you imply, worthless without the details.

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